Do you have a Raspberry Pi? Use it to monitor your parents’ home network!

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When you troubleshoot your network, Ping, DNS, HTTP, and Traceroute are the simplest and probably the most useful tests you could use. For example, if you run these tests on google.com and all of them are successful, you can safely assume that the network and the connection is up. If you add Iperf to your arsenal, you can run bandwidth tests and actually assess what speed your ISP delivers.